African barbie


  • Photographer
    Phoenix Olivia
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    June 2009
  • Technical Info
    Pentax Digital SLR. 50mm Lens

Walking though a ghetto in Kampala Uganda I came across these two boys playing with the head of a barbie doll. In Uganda's poor districts children rarely receive toys or manufactured play things. They usually make do with pieces of wood, cardboard boxes or used bicycle tires. So these boys were ecstatic to get their hands on a North American doll even though it was only a head. The image also showed an interesting contrast between the image of barbie which represents affluence, modernity and western posh, against the abject poverty of an African Ghetto. However all that controversy is lost on the innocence and childish joy of these boys.

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